Author

John Kessel

3 series · 70 standalones · 76 works in the catalog

b. 1950 · Buffalo, New York, USA

John Joseph Vincent Kessel is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer, and the author of four solo novels, Good News From Outer Space (1989), Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997), The Moon and the Other (2017), and Pride and Prometheus (2018), and one novel, Freedom Beach (1985) in collaboration with his friend James Patrick Kelly. Kessel is married to author Therese Anne Fowler.

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science fiction
literary & general
time travel
satire
fantasy
first contact

Series

Moment Universes(4 works)
Nebula Awards(1 work)
The Year's Best Science Fiction(1 work)

Works

Type

Genre

25 of 76 works

Animals1980short story
Herman Melville: Space Opera Virtuoso1980short story
Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!1981novelette
Another Orphan1982novelettescience fiction
Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine1983novelettescience fiction
Freedom Beach (1984 novelette)1984novelettescience fiction
Friend1984novelette
The Big Dream1984novelette
The Lecturer1984short story
A Clean Escape1985short storyscience fiction
Freedom Beach (1985 novel)1985novelscience fiction
The Pure Product1986novelettescience fiction
Credibility1987novelette
Judgment Call1987novelette
Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner1988short storyfantasy
Enemy Mine / Another Orphan1989anthologyfirst contact
Good News from Outer Space1989novelsatire
Mr. Hyde Visits the Home of Dr. Jekyll1989poem
Buddha Nostril Bird1990novelette
Invaders1990novelettefirst contact
Reading Lesson1990poem
Buffalo1991short storyscience fiction
The Moral Bullet1991novelettescience fiction
Faustfeathers1992novelette
Man1992novelette